Horse Racing News

Instructions

Implementation Reference

• horse_racing_news_mcp_server.py:82-112 (handler)

  The main handler function for the 'get_horse_racing_news' tool. It validates the limit parameter, fetches and parses the RSS feed using the helper function, limits the stories, and returns the result as a dictionary.
  def get_horse_racing_news(limit: int = 10) -> Dict[str, Any]: """ Fetch the latest horse racing news from Thoroughbred Daily News. Args: limit: Maximum number of stories to return (default: 10, max: 50) Returns: Dictionary containing feed information and list of news stories """ # Validate limit parameter if limit < 1: limit = 1 elif limit > 50: limit = 50 rss_url = "https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/feed/" result = parse_rss_feed(rss_url) # If there was an error, return it if "error" in result: return result # Limit the number of stories returned if "stories" in result and len(result["stories"]) > limit: result["stories"] = result["stories"][:limit] result["total_stories"] = len(result["stories"]) result["note"] = f"Limited to {limit} stories (use limit parameter to adjust)" return result
• horse_racing_news_mcp_server.py:28-80 (helper)

  Core helper function that fetches the RSS feed, parses the XML, extracts feed info and stories using clean_html, and handles various errors.
  def parse_rss_feed(url: str) -> Dict[str, Any]: """Fetch and parse RSS feed, returning structured data.""" try: # Fetch the RSS feed response = requests.get(url, timeout=10) response.raise_for_status() # Parse the XML root = ET.fromstring(response.content) # Find the channel element channel = root.find('channel') if channel is None: return {"error": "Could not find channel element in RSS feed"} # Extract feed metadata feed_info = { "title": channel.find('title').text if channel.find('title') is not None else "N/A", "description": channel.find('description').text if channel.find('description') is not None else "N/A", "link": channel.find('link').text if channel.find('link') is not None else "N/A" } # Find all item elements items = channel.findall('item') stories = [] for item in items: title = item.find('title') description = item.find('description') link = item.find('link') pub_date = item.find('pubDate') story = { "title": clean_html(title.text) if title is not None else "No title available", "content": clean_html(description.text) if description is not None else "No content available", "link": link.text if link is not None else "No link available", "published": pub_date.text if pub_date is not None else "No date available" } stories.append(story) return { "feed_info": feed_info, "stories": stories, "total_stories": len(stories) } except requests.RequestException as e: return {"error": f"Error fetching RSS feed: {str(e)}"} except ET.ParseError as e: return {"error": f"Error parsing XML: {str(e)}"} except Exception as e: return {"error": f"Unexpected error: {str(e)}"}
• horse_racing_news_mcp_server.py:11-26 (helper)

  Utility function to strip HTML tags, decode entities, and normalize whitespace in text extracted from RSS items.
  def clean_html(text: str) -> str: """Remove HTML tags and decode HTML entities from text.""" if not text: return "" # Remove HTML tags clean = re.compile('<.*?>') text = re.sub(clean, '', text) # Decode HTML entities text = unescape(text) # Clean up extra whitespace text = ' '.join(text.split()) return text
• horse_racing_news_mcp_server.py:82-82 (registration)

  The @mcp.tool() decorator registers the get_horse_racing_news function as an MCP tool.
  def get_horse_racing_news(limit: int = 10) -> Dict[str, Any]:
• horse_racing_news_mcp_server.py:83-91 (schema)

  Docstring defining the tool's input parameters and output format, used for schema generation in MCP.
  """ Fetch the latest horse racing news from Thoroughbred Daily News. Args: limit: Maximum number of stories to return (default: 10, max: 50) Returns: Dictionary containing feed information and list of news stories """